{"product_id":"the-years-top-hard-science-fiction-stories-8-9781884612572","title":"The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 8","description":"An unabridged collection spotlighting the best hard science fiction stories and novellas published in 2023 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster.\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"The Last Cathedral of Earth, In Flight\" by \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eTobias S. Buckell \u003c\/b\u003e- The last of humanity flees, among the stars, from alien Prowlers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"The Unpastured Sea\" by Gregory Feeley \u003c\/b\u003e- A mission to the planet Neptune runs into many setbacks.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"The Tinker and the Timestream\" by Carolyn Ives Gilman\u003c\/b\u003e - Colonists on a planet orbiting a decaying sun encounter interstellar time travelers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"Six Incidents of Evolution Using Time Travel\" by Derek K?nsken\u003c\/b\u003e - Time travel is found to be encoded in the DNA of some alien species.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"Cloudskimmer\" by Geoffrey A. Landis\u003c\/b\u003e - Robots and humans team up to explore Venus.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"Even if Such Ways Are Bad\" by Rich Larson\u003c\/b\u003e - A two-person crew goes on a deep space mission inside a living wormship.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"The Enthnomusicology of the Last Dreadnaught by Yoon Ha Lee\u003c\/b\u003e - The battle glory of an atrocious weapon of war is honored.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"Exiled to Gravity\" by Marissa Lingen\u003c\/b\u003e - A mysterious ailment hampers an engineer's return to space.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"Clockwork Melting by James Maxey\u003c\/b\u003e - An immortal races against time to complete an ice sculpture on Venus.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"The Elephant Maker\" by Alec Nevala-Lee\u003c\/b\u003e - Scientists clash with hunters and poachers for a rogue elephant needed to test a brain implant.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"The Ghosts of Mars\" by Dominica Phetteplace\u003c\/b\u003e - A teenager struggles to survive on Mars amidst peculiar phenomena attributed to ghosts.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"The Many Different Kinds of Love\" by Geoff Ryman with David Jeffrey\u003c\/b\u003e - After ten years of silence, an abiotic intelligence on Enceladus receives unauthorized messages from Earth.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLemuria 7\u003c\/i\u003e Is Missing\" by Allen M. Steele\u003c\/b\u003e - The disappearance of a passenger moonship is scrutinized.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"Defective\" by Peter Watts\u003c\/b\u003e - A zero-sum battle for survival rests on the ability of a scientist to communicate with an alien species.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eOCASTA\" by Daniel H. Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e - An AI, with an algorithm that analyzes and learns, has a story to tell.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Infinivox","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50502672220434,"sku":"9781884612572","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c62f847f-fb25-436b-a931-8f375580d1ea.jpg?v=1730777098","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-years-top-hard-science-fiction-stories-8-9781884612572","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}